Contrary to many EU-doomsayers, I predict the EU will rapidly reemerge over the next decades as the most advanced and powerful regional power on the planet. On one condition: that we defend it. Here’s why. Very long thread: 1/8 👇🧵

N.I.C.E. Be more like Canada 🇨🇦

Budapest Memorandum 1994 Ukraine gives up its nuclear weapons for US Security Guarantees. Foreshadowing.

We will introduce “made in Europe” criteria for public procurement in certain strategic sectors. Ensure that new foreign investments in our industry are truly in Europe’s interest. And step up support for strategic industries, like cars and batteries

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Pretty interesting that shit starts breaking after he got his hands on it and now the only thing that can fix it are his products

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.@ZelenskyyUa at @Europarl_EN extraordinary session on #1000DaysOfWar. We #StandWithUkraine for as long as it stands. 🇺🇦🇪🇺

The @Europarl_EN hearings of the new @EU_Commission Commissioners-designate will take place between 4 and 12 November. With a mandate given by European citizens, MEPs will ask, assess, scrutinise and vote. This is European democracy 🇪🇺

There’s two sides, but only one that represents real change in this election: Kamala Harris

Cats! Dogs! Geese! Laura Loomer! Look, now he’s attacking Taylor! Like the last season before a show gets canceled for getting over-the-top and, at the same time, boring. This election is about jobs, wages, climate, health care, abortion. Not his show. Your life.

not kidding at all when I say that the model that Doug Emhoff is setting for men to be powerfully, joyfully supportive of their spouses will have lasting cultural implications

This is Manuel, an usher at the European Parliament. But what exactly do ushers do? They make sure meetings run smoothly, so that members of Parliament can focus on their job. Take a look and find out for yourself!

Sunday was world’s hottest ever recorded day, data suggests

Is Europe even relevant anymore? -Or is it only good for Harry Potter, the Louvre and fancy cheese?  Let's take a whimsical jaunt through things that Europe still does quite well… And where it might stand to improve.

Nothing has become Rishi Sunak like his defeat: a study in grace, class, and charm

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Roberta Metsola has been re-elected President of the European Parliament. She will hold the post for another two and a half years.

Microsoft says meeting time has TRIPLED since 2020: typical workers are spending 57% of their time communicating [meetings, calls] with others: 'Today, knowledge work is, quantitatively speaking, less about creating new things than it is about talking about those things.’

"Music when we were growing up was the best. Everything these days is so terrible." Turns out across every single generation, quality of music peaks at age 17 and you begin to start hating any music made after you're 35. The Nostalgia Effect is powerful!